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maroon

Why don't you just use CutePDF writer? It sets up like a virtual printer and instead of actually printing the document, it converts your doc to a .pdf file and you rename and save it in whatever location you want. Sounds similar to what you mentioned on your first post. It's free and easy.

maroon

Is there any limit to how many times you can clone a drive? Does it create extra overhead on the copy or anything like that?

maroon

For the money I think that's a great setup!

Certainly better than what you have now.

Give us an update when you get it together.

maroon

I hear nLite has a Vista version now. I bet it would run okay if you slimmed it down some.

maroon

Thanks for helping me decide! Gonna go with door #2.

maroon

Pricing out my new system and had a question. Basically, here are the choices:

1. Intel C2D E6550 + GeForce 8600GTS

or

2. Intel C2D E4500 + ATI Radeon HD3850

I'm a light gamer, mostly MMORPGs, and I do like to do some mild overclocking. And as you can see from my sig, I expect a build to last me ...

maroon

Browse the disk that came with your mobo. The SATA drivers should be on there.

maroon

Definitely. Set up whatever partitions you want on the new drive and then clone to the partition you want.

maroon

I have a Westell 6100 running to a Sonicwall TZ 150 and my work comp and personal comp behind that. I did a windows repair install and now my personal comp can't access the internet. Everything is cool with the drivers, etc. and it says I'm connected, but no go. I do know the modem is in bridge mode ...

maroon

I recently started having problems with the old trusty ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Every time I reboot, I have to reinstall drivers to get the thing recognized in device manager. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, done the DriverCleaner hokey pokey and nothing works.

Just wondering if this is a software ...

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Ok, i'm letting it sit on chkdsk /r (still sitting at 11% tho).

Here is what I think the problem is though. I have two HDs in my system. One for OS and programs and the other for storage. Unfortunately, my pagefile is on the storage HD which evidently has gone down the crapper. What can I do to ...

maroon

Chkdsk came back with volume appears to be in good condition and was not checked. So I did chkdsk /p and it's hanging at 11%.

Is my HD toast now?

And thanks for your help!

maroon

on an XP Home installation. Gets to Windows loading screen then reboots. I've tried last known good configuration and safe mode, but it still reboots.

Don't know much about troubleshooting and need some help!

maroon

Are these fast enough to put your swap file on? Or maybe load a whole OS on them? I've never got to play with one and was gonna pick one up just to play around with.

maroon

Whoa! $30 to go from a 3800 single core to a x2 3800! That's crazy good value. Can't wait till the price drop.

maroon

Be sure to back up your data before running any disk diagnostic. If your HD is on its last leg, one of those utilities may kill it.

maroon

I've still got my old 950mhz Tbird and the Iwill KK266 it went in. My first build. *sniffs*

It'll be interesting to see how far it goes before it pops.

maroon

check this out

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2625

maroon

I'm on Bellsouth aDSL on a Westell 6100 modem. Behind a Sonicwall Tele2 is a Netgear switch with lines that go to two separate computers. Never had these issues before I added the Sonicwall and the switch.

1) Every minute or so the DSL connection pauses for maybe 3-4 seconds. Very annoying trying ...

maroon

Right now my setup is: DSL modem -> Sonicwall firewall -> work computer.

If I need to use my home computer I just switch the output from the DSL modem to my home computer's ethernet card. I'm looking for a more permanent solution, lol, and the IT guy at work tells me I need to buy a switch and put ...

maroon

Whew! Thanks, I'm back up and running. Never had a prob with XP so I didn't know what to do.

Now if I can just figure out why my drive disappeared for no reason.....

maroon

I figured no big deal I'll just back up to a restore point a week ago when it was still there and that should fix it. Now windows won't load. The comp stops at a blue screen telling me to do a chkdsk /f. The only problem with that is I can't even get to a command prompt to even try a chkdsk. On a ...

maroon

Heh, Intel knows their dual-cores don't compete with AMD's performance wise. Might as well win the price battle.

maroon

Hyperthread, shmyperthead. You got a socket 939. Wait for the dual cores to come out later this year.

You can use your uber laptop for the video stuff till then.

maroon

Looks like your case can handle 4 80mm fans, 2 in front and 2 in back. Ideally, the fronts the should pull in air and the back fans exhaust it out. If you have different speed fans put the faster ones in the rear of the case. And be sure to tidy up your HD cables and power wires.

The heatsink fan ...

maroon

Sounds like you have poor air flow through your case to me. Have you tried cleaning up cables and such? A case fan put in backward maybe?

Other than that, you may just have a Barton that runs hot. What voltage are you running to get 2.2 out of it? Have you tested the temp with an external probe ...

maroon

That's because you're running PC1600 mem vs PC2100 in the example. If you're running different brands/speeds of ram, you need to make sure the memory timings are set to the slowest memory you have. Download memtest86 and run it overnight before you buy a new ps.

maroon

He's gonna hit the swap file whether he has 128 or 192 megs of memory. He's still gotta boot the thing up which probably takes a couple of years with the current setup. I think he'll see a good performance increase with the faster HD with 8MB cache. Plus, down the road he can move the HD to another ...

maroon

I'd put another 64MB stick in there and grab a 5400rpm notebook HD for it. (I'm assuming it's got a 4200 rpm'er in there.) You can get a Samsung 40GB with 8MB cache for $68 at Newegg. That way you're doubling the ram and speeding up the slowest component for the same price as one stick of 128 MB ram.

maroon

Glad you got it worked out!

maroon

I would go ahead and RMA the ram before I did anything else. You're only out a little time.

Like Yard says, these boards are picky about ram. I wouldn't futz around with different bios versions.

maroon

Yep, I have an early board myself, rev 1.04 I believe. Although they were advertised as 200mhz, not many could reach it. I believe when the C2 revision of the northbridge came out, the board "officially" supported 200 FSB.

maroon

I've been running my old T'bred 1700+ at 175 x 12.5 = 2192 (cpuid) for quite some time. I have no doubt it could go higher because I'm only running it at +.1 volts and I like to keep it under 50c at load.

maroon

The XP 3200 doesn't run at 16 x 200! It runs at 11 x 200, 2.2 Ghz.

maroon

How about A64? This is a good budget setup.

POWMAX 0808 Beige ATX Mid tower Case with 350W Power Supply, Model "CP808PL-1" -RETAIL
Item# N82E16811145046
$22.88

BenQ 16x DVD-/+RW Drive with Software, 4X Dual Layer Beige Model DW1620 PRO, OEM
Item# N82E16827101633
$54.99

Seagate 80 GB ...

maroon

How much quieter is it? Been thinking about moving over myself if it's easier on the ears.

maroon

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Stick with the Crucial. I'd also go with a 9600Pro myself, but I'm not biased or anything.

maroon

Manually set that sucker to 15x. That will give 2ghz (133 x 15).

The only other thing I can think of is that you are incorrectly installing the heatsink (maybe backwards) and not getting full contact with the cpu or the HSF is not spinning, which would explain why the comp runs when it's ...

maroon

Okay so we know the FSB is set to 133. What multi are you using now?

maroon

PC2100 ain't gonna run at a 166 FSB! PC2100 runs at 133. For that processor you should be running it at 133 FSB x 15 mulitiplier.

Take everything out but the 512mb stick of PC2100, go into the bios and set the FSB to 133 and the multi to 15, then boot up.

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